A Piece of America
by Randi Grace Nilsberg
Title
A Piece of America
Artist
Randi Grace Nilsberg
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Sometimes I find inspiration from other photographers and artists. This piece is a result of an enhanced portrait I saw online on a photo studio's web site. It looked nothing like my image, but there were some lines, a girl's face and some grungy textures. I used two paintings for the colorful background and pulled and stretched them in Photoshop until they were totally unrecognizable. After all I was only interested in that particular color mix. Then I took a photo of my daughter and put it in the middle. I added a bunch of elements from a family vacation in USA and worked my way from there. It took me 3 months to complete it with all the 22 layers I ended up with. Matching them together and finding the best opacity for each layer so they would blend in well, was quite a challenge. Having too many choices was another. The only thing I was certain about was that I wanted a huge canvas print on my living room wall with lots of bright colors to brighten an otherwise neutral colored room. I wanted a real focal point.
I'm very happy with the result, and I get a lot of compliments for it, but it's too personal for selling. That lead me to another project, "A Piece of America" which is shown here. I took out the family portraits and added some more Americana stuff. I hope you enjoy it! See if you can spot my eye!
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February 22nd, 2013
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Comments (62)
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
JOHN TELFER
Randi, Excellent photo of this great patriotic collage that you have created. Love the creativity behind this and the great details and the way the various images merge into each other. Excellent photo collage, fav, voted, and google and tweet promoted for CFC 3 link promo link
Randi Grace Nilsberg replied:
Thank you so much, John! I really appreciate your support, it means a lot to me that people like what I do.